Re: Maybe thinking meat is a good idea

On 2008-05-06, John M. Gamble <jgamble@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
allegedly proclaimed to rec.arts.sf.written:
> In article <nebusj.1210093101@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Joseph Nebus <nebusj-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>	Are there stories in which a mature virtual population, folks 
>>who have had the time to consider and reflect and get used to life this 
>>way, come to the decision that it's better (by whatever standard) to 
>>live as a complicated biochemical process within a physical body?  And 
>>do they act on it?  
>
> You've got a lot of limitations there.  How about just stories
> of machine-based intelligences (whether they first started there
> or not) that go biological?

"The Bicentennial Man" and _Foundation and Earth_ fit the broadened
criteria...

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